Surreal life in Singapore, from Covid-19 to ‘circuit breaker’ and migrant workers’ plight

Every lockdown looks roughly the same from afar – the images of empty streets, grocery queues, ventilated patients and hazmat-suited health care workers have become familiar to all. But the actual experience of confinement is probably very different depending on which city and country we are in.Here in Singapore, the increasingly severe lockdown feels strange in many ways, as if we are in a dream: surreal.First is the term “circuit breaker” used for the lockdown introduced by the Singapore…

from South China Morning Post https://bit.ly/2x9qPMN